“Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.”
Nehemiah calls for immediate restoration of the pledged property: "Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them." The demand for immediate restoration emphasizes urgency and demonstrates that Nehemiah will not accept delayed or partial reform. The enumeration of pledged property and extracted interest indicates the comprehensiveness of the exploitation; the leaders have seized agricultural property and extracted multiple forms of interest (money, grain, wine, oil). The immediate restoration demanded suggests that Nehemiah intends to eliminate the economic basis of the exploitation and restore the community to an equitable distribution of resources.
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